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Dilemma....
« on: August 11, 2006, 06:47:40 pm »
Well, I have a dilemma that I don't quite know the answer to. I'm hoping somebody can point out an obvious solution that I'm missing, that would be the best. 

Ok, right now, I'm living in a decent sized bedroom, which has my dresser, tv, bookshelf, bed, and desk, and it's pretty much packed in tight.  It's functional, but not comfortable.  Also, it gets hot in summer. 

I have the opportunity to move into my sister'd old room.  It's in the basement, and was intended as a rec-room, I think.  It's quite large, and would have enough room for my bed, a full-sized table with chairs, and probably a couple chairs/small couch and a tv.  It's fairly large, and I have the means to furnish it. 

Now, here's my problem: the walls are rainbow colored.  The top-half is an ugly yellow, and the bottom is vertical stripes, about 3" wide (although each is a different width) of blue, pink, red, orange, and green, all neon, separated by think black strips.  And I hate the colors, they're ugly and make me unhappy (you know how colors affect people?  These colors piss me off). 

Unfortunately, my mom/sister spent days of work painting it all just right and perfectly, and my mom refuses to let me re-paint the walls to reasonable colors. 

So after me and my mom spent days cleaning it out, shampooing the carpet, and everything else, I basically told her that unless we can do something about the walls, I'm going to stick with my old room.  I didn't realize how badly it affected me until I actually spent a decent amount of time in it. 

Can anybody think of some way to fix the problem?  I'm trying to think of some way to hide the walls or something, but nothing is coming to me.  I definitely can't survive in a rainbow-colored room that looks like it was painted by a 12-year-old on acid, but I don't want to give up a far-more-comfortable room either. 

Any ideas?

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2006, 07:26:27 pm »
Get butcher paper and tape it to the wall :O?
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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2006, 07:32:25 pm »
I thought about covering the wall with some kind of paper, but I'm pretty sure that would look terrible, and probably take a long time to do :-/

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2006, 08:40:51 pm »
Uhh.. Get drunk and paint it anyway?  That way when your mom is like "Omg, you painted the room" you could be like "I was drunk?".
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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2006, 09:08:26 pm »
cardboard boxes are bigger :D?
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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2006, 11:28:18 pm »
Taught sheets!  You can get large sheets of fabric and hang them from pressure rods or support bars (or something) from the top, with additional ones at the bottom.  All you have to do is use a screwdriver, so it's not a big hassle.  Granted, it may look odd, but it won't be fugly, unless you pick the same colors or whatever.

Moth other answer is get some wallpaper and ducttape it up so that you can [eventually] take it down easily with the behind wall in-tact.  And additionally: "It's my room, I'll paint it if it damn near gives me a seizure!"

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2006, 11:54:19 pm »
You could paint penises on the walls in my room and as long as I don't have a girl over, they wouldn't bother me.

I don't know. If it's more room, I'd personally move into it. Who cares what the walls look like?
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2006, 11:55:24 pm »
Well if he has a seizure and dies cause he stands up to walk across the room....

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2006, 12:04:15 am »
He won't have a seizure. Just an acid trip.

Do what Ergot suggested. It's the only reasonable solution if you really can't stand the colors. Make sure the butcher paper is thick though. Otherwise it'll show through! :P
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2006, 03:20:36 am »
You could paint penises on the walls in my room and as long as I don't have a girl over, they wouldn't bother me.

I don't know. If it's more room, I'd personally move into it. Who cares what the walls look like?
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iago, wouldnt wallpaper work?

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2006, 04:47:00 am »
Wallpaper might work, and this butcher-paper thing seems promising (now that I've looked up what it actually is.. :)).  I'll post more info as it becomes available. 

Uhh.. Get drunk and paint it anyway?  That way when your mom is like "Omg, you painted the room" you could be like "I was drunk?".
Hah, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. :P

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2006, 05:25:01 am »
After reading your post, I came up with a solution really similar to Ergot's.  At schools, they have big rolls of paper ~3 feet wide.  If you can get one of those, you could completely cover the wall with a color of your choice! :D

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2006, 10:38:27 am »
After reading your post, I came up with a solution really similar to Ergot's.  At schools, they have big rolls of paper ~3 feet wide.  If you can get one of those, you could completely cover the wall with a color of your choice! :D
From what I understand, that's "Butcher Paper", which is exactly Ergot's solution :)

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2006, 11:11:21 am »
Nah.  Butcher paper is only brown.  Art paper comes in all kinds of solid colors.

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Re: Dilemma....
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2006, 12:23:06 pm »
According to what I read on Wikipedia, it can be "uncolored (having natural light brown color) or white [..... and] butcher paper used for arts and crafts is available in a variety of colors.

I guess it's not really the same stuff, but apparently some people consider it the same.